High Performing Business: Understand
With Business Intelligence you can turn your data into meaningful information...
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"42% of managers use wrong information at least once a week."
Understand

Business Intelligence enables organisations to significantly improve performance management aspects by:

  • Maximising existing data investments
    Business Intelligence takes the volume of data your organisation collects and stores transforming it into meaningful reports and analysis that everyone can then use.
  • A complete, integrated line of sight
    With secure, readily available reports and analysis, you see results across divisions, departments and groups of workers alike to defined business rules. This enables comparative analyses and drill down capabilities to discover underlying causes and understand "What", "When" & "Why" issues behind business performance criteria.
  • Aligning everyone with one, consistent version of the truth
    With common data definitions stored to business defined rules and an understanding of priorities, users of such processes are dealing with factual information, spending less time debating the data, values, structures etc., and more time making decisions based upon trusted data.
  • Shortening times to make informed decisions
    With timely reports and self-service reporting on key business drivers and metrics. All users of such Business Intelligence applications see changes as and when they happen enabling the right decisions to be made at the right time, thereby increasing the values of those decisions made.
  • Meeting the information needs of all users Flexible, intuitive and user-friendly reporting means that everyone can have the right information delivered in the right way: whether managed reports, dashboards, scorecards, online analytics, or self-service reporting and queries, all of the information is provided via personalised, secured menus ensuring high levels of acceptance and ease of use.
Case Studies
Case Study - The University of Nottingham
Sector: Higher Education
The University of Nottingham deploys a student planning application using IBM Cognos 8 Planning, Business Intelligence and Simpson Associates. Nottingham is one of the UK's leading universities...